Abstract
Through a close reading of The Future of New China by Liang Qichao's (1873-1929), an important novel published in 1902, the paper analyzes the way Liang narrates time, which is revealed in the dialogue relationship between the text and its annotations. It argues that the novel is neither a pure narration of the future, nor a mere review of the present, but a constant movement between the two. This fundamental narrative feature of the novel explains why the author made many mistakes, unnoticed in existing scholarship, when dealing with the conversion between the Gregorian calendar and the Chinese calendar, as well as with the transition between the present and the future.
First Page
69
Last Page
75
Recommended Citation
Jia, Liyuan. 2016. "Toward the Future: A New Interpretation to Liang Qichao'sThe Future of New China." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 36, (4): pp.69-75. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol36/iss4/23
